MECHANISM TO MONITOR TENDERING-ICAI acts tough [1 Attachment]

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From: CA Tarun Ghia tarunghiaca@yahoo.co.in [SolapurCAs] <SolapurCAs@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:33 AM
Subject: Message from EGroup of SolapurCAs MECHANISM TO MONITOR TENDERING-ICAI acts tough [1 Attachment]
To: SolapurCAs@yahoogroups.com

Dear Colleague, 

I am pleased to inform that  the Report of the Group under my convenorship, on the issue of responses to tendering by our members, has been accepted in toto and the Council has taken the decision to deal tough with the responses by our members to tendering : 

Based on my group report and consequent Çouncil decision, please read following ICAI Announcement which is also placed on ICAI website which in a nutshell means that : 

I. Response to tendering in the exclusive areas of practice of CAs like Audits and Attest Functions is now prohibited by the members, 

II. In other areas the response by our members is allowed as our members are competing with others. If we prohibit our members, the works will go away from profession, therefore, we have not prohibited. But in these other areas also now ICAI would monitor the responses. 

I am sure the effects will start coming soon as logically the tenders in audit and attest areas will fail. In other areas, our members will properly estimate the quantum of works and skills involved and consequent fees before responding to tenders and will adhere to minimum prescribed fees. 

With Regards, 

Tarun Jamnadas Ghia

Central Council Member, ICAI 

ANNOUNCEMENT- MECHANISM TO MONITOR TENDERING

 

With a view to contain the tendering system for attest functions, the Council at its special (338^th) meeting considered the report of the Group constituted under the convenorship of CA. Tarun Jamnadas Ghia, Member, Central Council and decided as under:

 

1.          Tendering has been prohibited in the exclusive areas of practice of chartered accountants like audit and attestation services. i.e. those areas where the assignments can be performed only by chartered accountants.  In those areas, where alongwith chartered accountants, the other professionals can also apply for the tender, there is no restriction for the chartered accountants to respond to the tenders floated by authorities from time to time. 

 

2.                     Members are advised to adhere to the recommended scale of fees prescribed by ICAI in the context of various professional assignments. To ensure such adherence, a member responding to a tender should be required to furnish to  ICAI at the designated e-mail address pdc.tender@icai.in with estimated hours to be devoted by the partner/proprietor, paid CAs, other staff and the fees quoted in the tender. Such details will be furnished by the member within a period of fifteen days of his responding to the tender. If the member is successful in securing the tendered assignment, then the member will also furnish the actual hours devoted by the partner/proprietor, paid CAs and the staff within two months of completion of the assignment. 

 

3.                      Members are required to maintain cost sheet in the given format while submitting any tender/bid. The format of the same can be viewed at <hyperlink Cost Sheet >.

 

4.          Members are required to maintain the cost sheet compulsorily and submit a soft copy of the bid submitted by them in response to any tender within 15 days to ICAI.  The office can check whether recommended scale of fees has been followed or not in those bids, to ensure adherence to quality standards. 

Encl : format of submitting data 

For Format of Cost Sheet click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8GyRsbVIg8gTzVIeUt1ajNoM2JPYWlmblFHbmhRTTJRb2tZ/view?usp=sharing